Julijana Gjorgjieva

[5][2] After completing high school, Gjorgjieva earned her undergraduate degree in mathematics at Harvey Mudd College[7] and conducted research in mathematical biology, specifically analyzing the susceptible, infected recovered (SIR) models and vaccination strategies for SARS.

[2] She completed the final two years of her postdoc at Brandeis University in the lab of Eve Marder.

[5][2] Gjorgjieva's research group studies how spontaneous activity in neural circuits lead to the refinement of sensory systems, how are these systems maintained post-development and after perturbations, and, lastly, how the neural networks being studied affect motor behavior.

[6][8] Gjorgjieva has received numerous awards for her work in computational neuroscience.

In 2021, Gjorgjieva was selected as a FENS-Kavli Scholar by the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence for her work in theoretical neuroscience[9][10][11] In 2018, Gjorgjieva was awarded the Peter und Traudl Engelhorn Stiftung Research Prize in “Computational Biology.